Garath McCleary

Garath McCleary
Garath McCleary at Nottingham Forrest in 2010
Personnel
Surname	Garath James McCleary
birthday	May 15, 1987
place of birth	Oxford ,  England
size	188 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
0000–2005	Oxford United
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2006	Slough Town	24 0(6)
2007-2008	Bromley FC	35 (10)
2008–2012	Nottingham Forest	111 (13)
2012–	Reading FC	99 0(9)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2013–	Jamaica	12 0(1)
1 Only league games are given. As of May 17, 2015 2 As of June 29, 2015

Garath James McCleary (born May 15, 1987 in Oxford , England ) is an English - Jamaican football player who has been under contract with Reading FC since 2012 .

Club career

Non-League Football

Garath McCleary learned to play football as a youth at Oxford United . In 2005 he left his hometown Oxford and moved to the lower class non-league football team Slough Town . After over a season with the Rebels , as the club is called in England, McCleary moved in January 2007 to FC Bromley , which he helped to promote to Conference South .

Nottingham Forest

In late January 2008 he signed his first professional contract with Nottingham Forest and achieved promotion to the Football League Championship in his first season with the Reds . McCleary is also used as a winger and as an attacker at Forest, but he has not yet proven to be so accurate in professional football, which is why he prefers to play in the outer positions in midfield. In July 2009 he agreed with the club from Nottingham on an early contract extension, the validity of which is limited to 2012. In the Football League Championship 2009/10 McCleary (24 games) received regular appearances at Forest, but due to the greater competition he could not earn a regular place. Also in the 2010/11 season he remained a substitute player (18 games / 2 goals) and again only missed promotion to the Premier League with his team in the play-off semifinals .

After Steve Cotterill had replaced his predecessor Steve McClaren as coach in the course of the first half of the 2011/12 season , McCleary became a regular. On March 20, 2012, he scored four goals in the 7-3 away win over Leeds United . Shortly thereafter, he received the March 2012 player of the month award.

Web links

• Garath McCleary in the database of weltfussball.de
• Garath McCleary in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Garath McCleary in the soccerbase.com database
• Garath McCleary , profile on the homepage of Reading FC (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ McCleary pledges future to Forest (BBC Sport)
2. ↑ Leeds United 3: 7 Nottingham Forest (BBC Sport)
3. ^ McCleary named Player of the Month ( Memento from April 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (The Football League)